SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:11
escudriando cundo y en qu punto de tiempo significaba el Espíritu de Cristo que estaba en ellos; el cual antes anunciaba las aflicciones que habían de venir al Cristo, y la gloria despus de ellas.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 1:11
Verse 11. The glory that should follow.] Not only the glory of his resurrection, ascension, exaltation, and the effusion of his Spirit; but that grand manifestation of God's infinite love to the world in causing the Gospel of his Son to be everywhere preached, and the glorious moral changes which should take place in the world under that preaching, and the final glorification of all them who had here received the report, and continued faithful unto death. And we may add to this the ineffable glorification of the human nature of Jesus Christ, which, throughout eternity, will be the glorious Head of his glorified body, the Church.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 11. Searching what, or what manner of time , etc.] The prophets made a very diligent inquiry into the exact time when Christ should come to work out the salvation of his people; to whom it was made known that his coming should be before the sceptre, or tribe of Judah, and all civil government in it, ceased; and before the second temple was destroyed, into which the Messiah, the messenger of the covenant, was to come, as the Lord and proprietor of it; and that it should be seventy weeks, or years, from a date given in ( Daniel 9:24-26) as it was revealed to the Prophet Daniel; who particularly inquired, and diligently searched into this matter, and was eminently a man of desires this way, as he is styled, ( Daniel 9:23) and they not only searched into the exact time, but into the manner and quality of the time when the Saviour should come; and foretold that it would be, with respect to the nations of the world, a time of profound peace; with respect to the Jews, that it would be a time of great blindness, ignorance, unbelief, and hardness of heart; that such would be that generation, or age, for wickedness and barbarity, as could not be declared and expressed; and that few would believe the report of the Gospel; and that the Messiah would be rejected of men, and be wounded, bruised, and put to death; and with respect to the Gentiles, that the Gospel would be preached to them, and that they should seek to Christ, be gathered to him, and hope and trust in him; and that the followers of the Messiah should be persecuted, and greatly distressed, and yet comforted and sustained; and this should be the face of the times, and the state of things, when the salvation should be revealed: and all this, and much more, the Spirit of Christ in them did signify ; or make manifest: from whence it appears, that Christ then existed, as he did before there were any prophets, and even from everlasting, being the eternal God; and that the Spirit is from him, as well as from the Father; and as here, so he is often by the Jews called ajym ajwr , the Spirit of the Messiah, or Christ; and that the Spirit is truly God, since he could declare beforehand the exact time of Christ's coming, and the finality of the age in which he came, as well as bear a previous testimony to his sufferings and glory; as also, that he was in the prophets, and they were inspired by him, and spake as he moved and directed them: when, it testified before hand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow . The sufferings of Christ are what the Jews call jym ylbj , the sorrows of the Messiah. These are particularly testified of in ( Psalm 22:1-31 69:1-36 Isaiah 53:1-12 Daniel 9:26) ( Zechariah 12:10). The glory, or glories, as it may be rendered, design his resurrection from the dead, his ascension to heaven, his session at the right hand of God, and having all power, authority, and judgment committed to him; and which are eminently and distinctly prophesied of in ( Psalm 16:10 68:18 110:1 Daniel 7:13,14).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-12 - Jesus Christ was the main subject of the prophets' studies. Their inquiry into the sufferings of Christ and the glories that shoul follow, would lead to a view of the whole gospel, the sum whereof is That Christ Jesus was delivered for our offences, and raised again for our justification. God is pleased to answer our necessities rather tha our requests. The doctrine of the prophets, and that of the apostles exactly agree, as coming from the same Spirit of God. The gospel is the ministration of the Spirit; its success depends upon his operation an blessing. Let us then search diligently those Scriptures which contai the doctrines of salvation.
Greek Textus Receptus
ερευνωντες 2045 5723 εις 1519 τινα 5101 η 2228 ποιον 4169 καιρον 2540 εδηλου 1213 5707 το 3588 εν 1722 αυτοις 846 πνευμα 4151 χριστου 5547 προμαρτυρομενον 4303 5740 τα 3588 εις 1519 χριστον 5547 παθηματα 3804 και 2532 τας 3588 μετα 3326 ταυτα 5023 δοξας 1391
Vincent's NT Word Studies
11. Did signify (edhlou). Imperfect tense: better, was declaring, all along through the prophetic age, in successive prophets. See the same verb in 1 Corinthians iii. 13; 2 Pet. i. 14.
When it testified beforehand (promarturomenon). Only here in New Testament.
Of Christ (eiv Criston). Lit., unto Christ. So Rev., in margin. The sufferings destined for Christ, as in ver. 10 he speaks of the grace, eijv uJmav, unto you; i.e., destined to come unto you. Peter was especially concerned to show that the sufferings of Christ were in fulfilment of prophecy, because it was a subject of dispute with the Jews whether the Christ was to suffer (Acts iii. 18; xxvi. 22, 23).
The glory (tav doxav). Rev., correctly, the glories. The plural is used to indicate the successive steps of his glorification; the glory of his resurrection and ascension, of the last judgment, and of the kingdom of heaven.
